At least 13 people in eight states have died after eating cantaloupe contaminated with listeria, in the deadliest outbreak of food-borne illness in the United States in more than a decade, public health officials said on Tuesday. (wikipedia.org)

New Delhi, Sept 23 (ANI): Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said tackling non-biological contaminants required awareness and interventions across the food-chain with a focus on the management of food safety and quality. (thaindian.com)

however, few studies have described the presence of Enterobacter, Klebsiella , and Serratia species, particularly with regard to the presence of these genera in foods and milk products. (frontiersin.org)

1985 United States salmonellosis outbreak in milk from the Hillfarm Dairy in Melrose Park, Illinois caused 16,284 confirmed, and possibly as many as 200,000 cases of food poisoning in six Midwest states. (wikipedia.org)

2005 Indonesia food scare, carcinogenic formaldehyde was added as a preservative to noodles, tofu, salted fish, and meatballs 2008 Chinese milk scandal There is a heavy stigma attached to the presence of hair in food in most societies. (wikipedia.org)

Concerns are first voiced in the news media that the imported gluten may have been used in products intended for human consumption, however the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assures consumers that all of the suspect gluten was used exclusively in pet foods and there is "no evidence to suggest that any of the imported Wheat Gluten from the suspect firm has entered the human food supply. (wikipedia.org)

On March 16, Menu Foods issues a U.S. nationwide recall for dog and cat foods produced at two of its facilities between December 3, 2006, and March 6, 2007. (wikipedia.org)

The initial recall comprises sixty million units of cuts and gravy-style food in pouches sold under nearly 100 brand names, including premium brands like Iams and private-label brands sold at nationwide chains such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, and other large retailers. (wikipedia.org)

While the recalled products represent just 1% of pet foods available in the U.S., the recall is one of the largest in American history. (wikipedia.org)

Menu Foods expands the recall to include dozens of more cat and dog food products, including all varieties of 'cuts and gravy' type wet pet food in cans and pouches, not just specific UPCs, as before, in order to ensure pet stores removed any chance of contaminated batches reaching consumers. (wikipedia.org)

Ansari said that the Government also proposes to establish a new statutory body - the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India - for laying down standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import and to ensure availability of safe food for human consumption. (thaindian.com)

some researchers argue that consumption of products derived from these animals is not a risk to human health, whereas others have questioned the possibility that bacterial strains with resistance genes may be transmitted by food derived from these animals. (frontiersin.org)

If you or someone you love has fallen ill from contaminated food and feels this was due to the negligence of others, contact the Waukesha personal injury lawyers at Habush Habush & Rottier S.C.®, at (800) 242-2874 today. (waukeshapersonalinjurylawyer.com)

Cornell University and a New York state-based testing facility receive samples from Menu Foods for testing. (wikipedia.org)

Menu Foods confirms the problem was with the wheat gluten used to thicken and enrich the gravy in the canned and pouched wet food products, and that the medical problems exhibited in test subjects include renal failure. (wikipedia.org)

Although Menu Foods products are also sold in Mexico, little information is published regarding the situation in that country. (wikipedia.org)

When an outbreak of food poisoning hits, we trace our culinary steps backwards in an attempt to untangle the cause, hopefully before it can hit again. (gizmodo.co.uk)

If fast-acting, handheld sensors eventually became widespread, however, there would be no need to wait weeks to trace back the source of a food-poisoning outbreak. (gizmodo.co.uk)

The outbreak appeared to be the third worst in the United States attributed to any form of food-borne illness, in terms of the number of deaths, since the C.D.C. began regularly tracking such outbreaks in the early 1970s. (wikipedia.org)

The broad scope of antimicrobial approaches to kill or prevent the growth of microorganisms in foods and beverages, including a variety of natural and artificial preservative strategies, are described in a comprehensive Review article in Industrial Biotechnology . (phys.org)

This routine may be affecting various aspects of the food industry, since antibiotic-resistant microorganisms from animals can be disseminated in different food products ( Rolain, 2013 ). (frontiersin.org)

In the Review " Ingredient Technology for Food Preservation ," Zuoxing Zheng, PhD, Principle Scientist at Kraft Foods Group (Glenview, IL) discusses new and emerging antimicrobials and how they are being used to improve the safety, quality, and shelf-life of food and beverage products. (phys.org)

Since the residue pattern in this commercial episode changes less in the avian species, these results reinforce the value of birds rather than mammals as markers of the source of contamination with persistent organochlorine pollutants. (biomedsearch.com)

Despite a thorough search of the local landfill, the discarded three-bean salad containers were never located, making it impossible to test them to confirm the source of contamination. (wikipedia.org)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a possible source of the sicknesses, indicated by the presence of melamine, an industrial chemical, in wheat gluten imported from China. (wikipedia.org)

The 2005 Indonesia food scare was a food scare in 2005 in Jakarta, Indonesia, when the government found that 60% of noodle shops in the capital had been serving noodles laced with formaldehyde, a known carcinogen. (wikipedia.org)

Food inspectors detected iodine and cesium in the food, two of the more dangerous radioactive byproducts that are feared to have been released from the plants in Fukushima. (go.com)

Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 many concerned citizens-particularly mothers-were unconvinced by the Japanese government's assurances that the country's food supply was safe. (indigo.ca)

On March 30 it was widely reported that the United States Food and Drug Administration had found melamine in wheat gluten that was used in the pet foods in question. (wikipedia.org)

The FDA prohibits the import of wheat gluten from a specific Chinese company, Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company (徐州安营生物技术开发有限公司),website, and says that the contamination may be in dry pet foods as well. (wikipedia.org)

The contaminated wheat gluten is determined to have come directly from China or through the Netherlands to the U.S. through ChemNutra, a Las Vegas-based supply company for pet food manufacturers. (wikipedia.org)

Government scientists have determined that there is very low risk to human health from consuming food from animals that ate tainted feed. (showcatsonline.com)

Includes sale, transport, storage, processing, packaging and retail sale and all of the points of risk at which the food may become contaminated or spoiled or corrupted in some way. (thefreedictionary.com)

Some applications where additional lubrication would be undesirable include: Paper industry: No lubrication possible due to risk of paper contamination. (wikipedia.org)

Tests at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada detected aminopterin in some pet food samples, but only in concentrations of parts per billion or parts per trillion, amounts too low to cause the symptoms seen. (wikipedia.org)

The New York State Food Laboratory reported that aminopterin was found in samples sent to them by Cornell. (wikipedia.org)

The National Centre for Laboratory Animal Science (to be integrated into the National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research), and the Food & Drug Toxicology Research Centre, National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau are the other wings of NIN, for India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. (wikipedia.org)

Agencies such as WHO and FAO recognized the institute as a Centre for excellence in food quality, safety and nutrition research. (wikipedia.org)

1937 Elixir sulfanilamide incident: S. E. Massengill Company used diethylene glycol as the solvent, it led to the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 1942, Nose droppers were found to be contaminated by users to the detriment of subsequent users. (wikipedia.org)

An "incident" of chemical food contamination may be defined as an episodic occurrence of adverse health effects in humans (or animals that might be consumed by humans) following high exposure to particular chemicals, or instances where episodically high concentrations of chemical hazards were detected in the food chain, and traced back to a particular event. (wikipedia.org)

And U.S. food-safety officials say they're confident in the system designed to prevent contaminated foods from entering from Japan. (go.com)

I'm a passionate aspiring Food Safety Officer in the Botswana Defence Force, would like to persue a carrier in Food Safety Management from Degree to Masters programme, I currently hold a Diploma in Environemental Health form the University of Botswana. (foodsafetynews.com)

In August 2006 Parliament enacted the Food Safety and Standards Act to eventually replace all existing laws on the subject, he added. (thaindian.com)

Pointing out that the current year has been declared as Food Safety and Quality Standard Year with the objective of bringing together the various initiatives of Central and State Governments, he said: A significant initiative in this regard would be the certification of 10 thousand farmers across the country for Good Agricultural Practices and for Organic Food. (thaindian.com)

QAI is the only USDA-accredited organic certifying agency able to offer joint certification to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), Safe Quality Food (SQF) and FSSC 22000 global food safety standards, which is required by many retailers under the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). (wikipedia.org)

Food may be accidentally or deliberately contaminated by microbiological, chemical or physical hazards. (wikipedia.org)

In contrast to microbiologically caused foodborne illness, the link between exposure and effect of chemical hazards in foods is usually complicated by cumulative low doses and the delay between exposure and the onset of symptoms. (wikipedia.org)

SunJet, the inkjet ink division of Sun Chemical, and Xaar, the world's leading inkjet technology specialist, have collaborated on the development of IK822, Black MOF - a new mineral oil-free (MOF) ink that addresses food contamination fears. (xaar.com)

They are absent in the raw materials, and are formed by chemical reactions between natural and/or added food constituents during processing. (wikipedia.org)

The institute majorly conducts research in obesity, diabetes, food chemistry, dietetics, drug toxicology, and micronutrient deficiency in collaboration with centers such as the Rockefeller University, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Washington University, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the U.S.. and the University of Wollongong in Australia. (wikipedia.org)

Dietary accumulation or bioaccumulation is another hallmark characteristic of POPs, as POPs move up the food chain, they increase in concentration as they are processed and metabolized in certain tissues of organisms. (wikipedia.org)

The nutritional value of food and drinks advertised on children's television programs is worse than food shown in ads during general air time, according to University of Illinois at Chicago researchers. (phys.org)

Due to this capacity for long-range transport, POP environmental contamination is extensive, even in areas where POPs have never been used, and will remain in these environments years after restrictions implemented due to their resistance to degradation. (wikipedia.org)

A new paper in ACS Infectious Diseases details a new technique that combines two existing food contamination detection methods into a single, fast diagnostic test. (gizmodo.co.uk)

But if the test eventually made it into widespread use-perhaps as a fast-acting, handheld food sensor-it has the potential to radically change how we deal with food poisoning outbreaks. (gizmodo.co.uk)

The product complies with general specifications for food enzyme preparations as published by JECFA.Mycotoxin Secondary metabolite of fungi Contaminating food and feeds Environmental contamination By Susumu Kumagai University of Tokyo Research Centre for Food safety.SIAM 23, 17-20 October 2006 DE/ICCA This document may only be reproduced integrally. (tecj-wrk.tk)

Health concerns have reduced the popularity of this meat dish in some parts of the world because of the danger of contamination by bacteria and parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii and Taenia saginata. (wikipedia.org)

Later in December 2006, Iowa and Minnesota health officials investigated an E. coli outbreak that was traced to foods served at Taco John's restaurants in Cedar Falls, Iowa and Albert Lea and Austin, Minnesota. (wikipedia.org)

The Taco John's E. coli outbreak was traced to contaminated lettuce sold in foods at Taco John's restaurants that were supplied by a Minneapolis lettuce supplier. (wikipedia.org)

Taco John's president and CEO Paul Fisherkeller stated in an open letter that their restaurant food was safe to eat in the wake of the E. coli outbreak that closed three of their restaurants in Iowa and Minnesota. (wikipedia.org)

A 2008 study produced similar experimental results in rats and characterized the melamine and cyanuric acid in contaminated pet food from the 2007 outbreak. (wikipedia.org)

These impacts are felt by all consumers because harmful substances are being ingested by consumers because of the use of dangerous pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals in food production. (wikipedia.org)

EIS is a powerful technique that has been widely used to characterize different food products such as the analysis of milk composition, the characterization and the determination of the freezing end-point of ice-cream mixes, the measure of meat ageing, and the investigation of ripeness and quality in fruits. (wikipedia.org)

100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics is a book written by Arthur Kallet and F.J. Schlink first released in 1933 by the Vanguard Press and manufactured in the United States of America. (wikipedia.org)

The book concludes with the statement that "Above all, let your voice be heard loudly and often, in protest against indifference, ignorance, and avarice responsible for the uncontrolled adulteration and misrepresentation of foods, drugs, and cosmetics. (wikipedia.org)

Several sampling and analytical methods including thin-layer chromatography (TLC), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), mass spectrometry, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), among others, have been used to test for aflatoxin B1 contamination in foods. (wikipedia.org)

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The factory employees suspected that the source of the contamination was a group of immigrants, who may have stowed away on the distributors truck, and desperately needed a restroom. (thehomestead.guru)

In one incident, a person who vomited spread infection across a restaurant, suggesting that many unexplained cases of food poisoning may have their source in vomit. (wikipedia.org)

It consists of the Office of the Commissioner and four directorates overseeing the core functions of the agency: Medical Products and Tobacco, Foods and Veterinary Medicine, Global Regulatory Operations and Policy, and Operations. (usrecallnews.com)

Kallet and Schlink premise the book as being "written in the interest of the consumer, who does not yet realize that he is being used as a guinea pig…" The book's key proposition is that a significant portion of the products sold to the public-particularly pharmaceuticals and food products-are released with little regard for or knowledge of how these products adversely affect the consumer. (wikipedia.org)

The grocery stores and restaurants who buy California leafy greens products support the food safety program by only purchasing these products from the LGMA member companies who passed mandatory government inspections. (wikipedia.org)

At a time when food security is of global concern and population growth continues to stress the environment, the innovations highlighted in the report have the potential to affect the world in a positive way. (worldwatch.org)

The book goes on to state that the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 is not effective in arresting these trends, and real reform or consumer protection is obstructed by the powerful connections that offending corporations have with the government. (wikipedia.org)

At a time when China's population is growing, producing healthy food is of critical importance. (worldwatch.org)

Its central argument propounds that the American population is being used as guinea pigs in a giant experiment undertaken by the American producers of food stuffs and patent medicines and the like. (wikipedia.org)

Oxfam USA notes that in March of this year food prices in China were nearly 12 percent higher than they were the previous March. (worldwatch.org)

Only 24 percent of children consume iron-rich food, 24 percent of children meet a minimally acceptable diet, and only half of pregnant women take recommended iron supplementation during pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)

There is positive association between household food consumption score and lower prevalence of stunting, underweight and wasting.Children in the food secure household have lowest rates of stunting (33 percent), while children in the food in secure household have rates up to 49 percentage. (wikipedia.org)